Word: certain
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...think it's nice that they're administrators and people removed from the peer situation," says Fuller. "I trust the U.C. to a certain extent, but especially in terms of our group, a lot of people have this innate prejudice against cheerleaders because we're supposed to be stupid or something...
...might easily have blinded the good folk of Salt Lake to reality. Whether the disclosures will be enough to deprive Salt Lake of the Games or topple the autocratic--some say dictatorial--18-year regime of I.O.C. head Juan Antonio Samaranch is doubtful. But the investigations will reveal certain things: that the leaders of S.L.O.C. were not present-day saints, that Samaranch is either delusionary or hypocritical to a Clintonesque degree, and that the relationship between the Olympic movement and the U.S. involves good measures of fear and loathing--fear that the money will go away, loathing for the other...
...feel I must respond to Simon J. DeDeo's "plea for privacy" (Opinion, Jan. 11). He feels that certain UNIX commands on the Harvard system can be used for stalking and therefore should be removed...
...medication. They must monitor the patient closely, at least in the first few weeks, for signs of overdose. The drugs cannot be taken by people with severe heart failure or asthma. Nor are they appropriate for folks whose heart condition is a result of valve disease. Even certain over-the-counter medications, such as Tagamet, can interfere with their action. But many patients whose lives have been constrained and threatened by congestive heart failure will probably agree that the benefits are worth the risks...
...broker tries to persuade you to buy class-B mutual-fund shares instead of class A, make sure it's in your best interest, not just his. The sec is investigating whether certain brokers favor B shares because of fatter commissions. Even though B shares bear no up-front sales charge, they normally carry high early-redemption and annual fees and generate lower long-term returns than class-A shares...